indonesian farmer's story

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When I was about to travel to school, I heard the news that my mother opened the name again and immediately let me go home early. When on my way to the hospital I thought of something strange until I was almost at the crossroads bumping into someone when I was about to stab the person as I immediately reflexed then I slammed the steering wheel into the sidewalk and I fainted.

When I realized I was lying helplessly with a longitude wound in the hospital, I was with my mother in the same room in vip 1 bougainfiel. Instantly I wanted to hug my mom but what a power I was also lying helpless . A few days after my mother and I started to improve and the doctor also let me go home there I felt good to be reunited with my parents and my brother . Although my life is not as beautiful as it used to be. After I graduated from high school . My desire is that I work hard to make my parents happy so that I can help my parents and return the favor to those who raised me to this day. When I searched and applied at several companies.

Once upon a time there was a father, sorry yes, Chinese from Kopo who was kind to me.He bought land to people and let me take care of it. I can build a hut and plant it. It's so good when the father needs money and wants to sell the land given to me with a system of installments hundreds of thousands per month, or anytime I can pay,” he explained.

From the kindness of the people the City of Toha lived, and was determined to get married at the age of 17. He married Irah, a Waas girl who when 1999 was 14 years old and now blessed with Irawati's son, Rismawati, Virginia Putri.

At first he married without parental blessing because Toha said his future father-in-law was not sure he could feed. But he was desperate. Married and a few years later her in-laws were able to accept. “I believe living in the forest is a lot of magic,” said Toha.Years of marriage and hard work he remains poor. But he had this togetherness of mind with his wife, that the only way to change things was by working hard day and night. “I am usually hungry, I used to have a hard time living for years, even once living on the streets with my wife. I'm not wasteful. My wife can arrange money,” she said.

His efforts were successful in 2008. Toha savings can buy land covering an area of 140 square meters at a price of Rp 600,000. This Rp 600 thousand from the proceeds of raising cattle. Tired of living in a hut, Toha began to think of owning a house. The savings from the cows belong to someone else. In 2013 managed to collect up to Rp 60 million to build a house.Odesa Indonesia

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Toha, the Simple, Kind-hearted Farmer

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april 17, 2017 17:55

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He used to be poor.Living in a hut. Eating needs are hard. His misery increased when people stayed away from him because there were rumors circulating he liked to steal livestock.

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The name of the Family Card (KK) says Toha. Born in Bandung on March 12, 1978. The man who lives in the Cage of Cows in the Oray Tapa Tourism area of Bandung is known to people as farmers and breeders. Personality's interesting. Good communication. Tell me about the farm details. His sense of humor is strong. Not guarding the image. He also has another advantage, which is a good social attitude towards the surrounding residents. And that makes fun of working with Toha because he is adept at joking.

But beyond that personality, Toha has a different character from the average farmer. He has a good supply of knowledge, and knows the agricultural model from upstream to downstream rationally. The level of weakness is only a matter of lack of technology and organizational aspects. He farmed himself without going through the nahkoda of a peasant group or organization. It is also not modern in its agribusiness.

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Between those advantages and disadvantages by Odesa Indonesia is placed on a proportional aspect. In the space of empowerment, a figure like Toha is enough to be a capital of goodness to be processed further to produce progress (progress).

Toha. For now his life is quite enough. The size of its adequacy is reviewed from two things. First, from the aspect of his life process without material capital and weak education. Second, from the average life size of people in Waas Toha Village is classified as medium. Not poor like the majority of other farm laborers, also not classified as rich as some farmers who have land.

Rise from poverty

From Toha's narration, his life journey is sad to tell. At the age of 11 years when his mother died he had to separate from his family, got foster parents in Cilaja Cilengkrang. Toha said he was less attention by his father who remarried until he married four. But from his parents he drew experience as a cattle rancher.

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Toha schools only until grade 2 Elementary School. Out of school because you can't afford to pay. Rp 350 per month burdens his parents.

At the age of SD to adolescence he lakoni as a foster child of farmers. Arcamanik's fields and forests became familiar places. Understand every corner of the forest. When he turned 15 years old he began to know the trade, learn and learn to sell all kinds of crops, to bring it to the urban area of East Bandung.

When he started living in Waas, he had no land and no place to live. Lucky there are City people who have the land and kind to take care of it. The land is now a cow shed.

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“There was once a father, sorry yes, Chinese from Kopo who was kind to me.He bought land to people and let me take care of it. I can build a hut and plant it. It's so good when the father needs money and wants to sell the land given to me with a system of installments hundreds of thousands per month, or anytime I can pay,” he explained.

From the kindness of the people the City of Toha lived, and was determined to get married at the age of 17. He married Irah, a Waas girl who when 1999 was 14 years old and now blessed with Irawati's son, Rismawati, Virginia Putri.

At first he married without parental blessing because Toha said his future father-in-law was not sure he could feed. But he was desperate. Married and a few years later her in-laws were able to accept. “I believe living in the forest is a lot of magic,” said Toha.

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Years of marriage and hard work he remained poor. But he had this togetherness of mind with his wife, that the only way to change things was by working hard day and night. “I am usually hungry, I used to have a hard time living for years, even once living on the streets with my wife. I'm not wasteful. My wife can arrange money,” she said.

His efforts were successful in 2008. Toha savings can buy land covering an area of 140 square meters at a price of Rp 600,000. This Rp 600 thousand from the proceeds of raising cattle. Tired of living in a hut, Toha began to think of owning a house. The savings from the cows belong to someone else. In 2013 managed to collect up to Rp 60 million to build a house.

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Suspected as a thief

Reminiscing the story of 2000-2010 for Toha is reminiscing about grief. Living in acute poverty to the point of underestimating his neighbors. He felt that he had never harmed others, but there was always someone who thought minor, especially when he started trading sheep.

“I often change sheep because I breed while trading. It turns out that some people think I am doing nothing. People stayed away because there was the issue of spreading my sheep. The farmer in my village felt it was unnatural to change sheep. Usually a new year is sold” said.

The saddest thing about Toha is that one day there is a loss of sheep. He was wrongly accused of being a thief. Toha was forced to confess with a stab. He did not fight back then. He chose to bring trouble to the police. The police won't process it for the reason that there is no visa. Returning home in anger because he felt in his village branded as a thief, while in the police did not get the justice requested. Not accepting of it, he felt he had to take the path of completion. To some residents he said that Ustad had to leave Waas or die in the field.Perhaps because I did not playfully angry. I don't know who told this to that guy. Finally moved too,” recalls Toha.

For Toha, envious diseases about property in the village are common. Usually people who feel rich feel pretentious so that they underestimate people who do not have. All he thought about was one, living enough and not being destitute. And the way is only one.

“Don't be surprised if my wife and I work until 11pm. Our principle is to let parents suffer, as long as children are happy. The kids stay home, my wife and I stay in the cage,”.

Kindness

Toha and her family are not now called poor, although they cannot be called rich, but the work ethic is quite impressive. The long process of not having anything could now have a house, several thousand meters of land of his own, he said, and also land management in perhutani.The results of the search Odesa-Indonesia to Waas villages about the figure of Toha is quite interesting. Of the 7 people in RT different and three villages near Waas view Toha positively. Everyone thinks Toha is great for reasons like to work hard. Salut because it used to not be able to now have a cow and pinter tani. Some people know Toha for its kindness of helping others. Even until now he also supported an old family to work in his field with guaranteed food needs fulfilled. Not to mention he also often shared work with his brother who he considered willing to try hard to improve things.

“Pantes Mang Toha that if given job job always say able. Apparently he can organize workers and lead them,” said Agung Prihadi who accompanied Toha for the management of mentoring work program.-Sadur Sentosa